I've been an avid reader on the board for a long time, but always felt I had to post some skiing first to get more involved. I have finally had a friend shoot some video and put together a clip this week and am looking for feedback. This is a short run (as all of ours are here in SE Michigan) where I'm just trying to lay down some nice, easy turns. My older video camera failed me just before this(hence I ended up wearing it on this run), so I had to resort to my backup, which results in more shake and less clarity. Regardless, I'm sure the fine eyes here will find some things going wrong, and maybe some things going right:
Here's some things that I am looking at and would like further clarity:
At 0:11 and 0:17 it appears my skis diverge during the transition. I worked on this earlier in the year, and found that adding in a longer float helped reduce this, but I'm not purposefully holding the float here, and the divergence is back.
At 0:17 it looks like I am on both big toe edges resulting in an A-frame
Not holding any or much counter acting through the turns
It seems like my left turns have less counterbalancing than my right turns; maybe it's the camera angle, but it seems like I'm not getting much weight over the outer ski, especially later in the run. Having the camera hanging off that side may not have helped.
I've been trying to retract and remove any extension through the transition, and am not sure I succeeded on that, and would like feed back
Open to any feedback, positive or negative, based on what you see.
We have one more weekend of skiing left here this coming weekend; my hopes are to get one more video of shorter, faster, higher energy turns, and post that. I tend to be a "plodder" when it comes to my skiing, and have been trying to add more energy into it, but that was not the intent of this run.
Thanks, looking forward to your honest assessment and feedback.
Jerry